> Because of the need for network management. Even the idealised Internet has a few centralised resources, such as the IP address space (IANA + the hierarchy of

> Because of the need for network management. Even the idealised Internet has a few centralised resources, such as the IP address space (IANA + the hierarchy of NICs). How is that an issue? You mean it's a problem because of the lack of volunteers for the job, or because of technical issues to achieve proper networking? Guifi has network management policies which you have to follow to be part of the mesh (IP address space, network topology, routing at supernode borders, QoS, etc.) but everything else is decentralized. To be honest I've never been their user, so I'm not sure how good their networking is. Guifi is quite active in Catalonia. What surprises me is how lacking mesh networks are everywhere else. Perhaps I should be surprised at how active Guifi is.